The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
BARRY GOLDWATERI say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.
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Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.
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There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
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I’m the most underdog underdog there is.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.
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My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
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Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
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Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.
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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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In your heart you know he’s right.
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